Show iff 6 ink ji L 7 7 big russian kussian wheat yield yie I 1 a slave slav win distinction as greatest Grea cereal producers producer with bushels bushel crop washington Washing tom the united states baa has toot its place as the great wheat producing country in tho the world slid and russia has won that distinction even though last year the total yield of wheat in the united batea was waa next to the largest in the history of american agriculture the crop of 1901 only h havling exceeded it russia last year produced the remarkably large harvest barvest of bushels bushela aich constitutes the largest crop crep yer ever e harvested by any country and bushels greater than that of the united states the treat yield of russia for 1909 as shown show by tho the revised official returns received by the united states department part ment or of agriculture exceeds by more than bushels the previous acord of russia only twice has tho the wheat production of russia surpassed that of tho the united states the first in 1104 when the crop here was a fal failure lurn about one fourth of the Itus crop la Is exported rye was grow on acres ilk ih russia last year rye la Is the chief grain of russia returns received by the department of agriculture from a dwren countries which in the preceding year produced over four fifths of 0 the so bo called worlds wheat crop exclusive of the sea son bon crops of india and the southern hemisphere show in the aggregate a no net gain in 1909 of bushels or nearly 18 per cent over the yield of the same countries in 1908 this would indicate that the so called worlds world spro production last year was approximately bushels all but three of the countries heard from report an increase those with short are germany hungary and bosola hirae e gavula the condition in which tho the new crops entered winter la Is satisfactory except in great britain and russia an official crop report from russia rates the tha crops as below aie average rage IZ li provinces that contain 53 per cent of the ryo acreage and 41 per cent of the area of winter wheat |